US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO METAL MINING on Nov. 4 for "Magnetostrictive member and method for manufacturing magnetostrictive member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,952, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUMITOMO METAL MINING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Magnetostrictive member and method for manufacturing magnetostrictive member" was invented by Kazuhiko Okubo (Ome, Japan), Kazutaka Osako (Ome, Japan) and Kiyoshi Izumi (Ome, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The magnetostrictive member is formed of a single crystal of an iron-based alloy having magnetostrictive characteristics, is a plate-like body having a long-side direction and a short-side direction, and has a lattice constant of a greater than100less than orientation in the long-side direction not larger than a lattice constant average calculated ...